We're welcoming two new interns this week - one from Norway and one from Taiwan - and to celebrate we headed to Chaoyang Park. We rented a pedal-powered 6-seater and trundled around on the pavements discussing point scores for flattening various classes of pedestrian, rode the spinning roller coaster, log flume and spinny-octopus-thing and went to the Sony ExploraScience museum (great exhibits; shame about the café). Later we rented a boat and generally lazed around in under a perfect blue sky.
What a difference taking half the cars off the roads, shutting down the factories and the chance arrival of torrential rainfall makes! Yesterday we were able to see from the middle of town all the way North to the mountains. The city looks wonderful when it's clear.
This evening we went to the AIESEC office and each of us cooked something "native". I went for mashed potato. It was a resounding success (though I say it myself), despite the oddly coloured margarine and UHT milk that went into it. So far no-one has had to bring it back up again, and we all live in hope.
The Olympics start on Friday. We all have the afternoon off, so will either head to a sports bar or one of the humongous outdoor screens to catch the no-doubt arse-achingly long Opening Ceremony in Beijingovision.
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